Strategic placement of urban agriculture: A spatial optimization approach

Urban Agriculture and a Planning Approach to Urban Food Systems

A multi-objective optimization approach to optimal sensor placement of irregular LSF structures

In recent years, lightweight steel framed (LSF) structures are designed to resist fire, earthquakes, and storm events. This system has entered the field of construction due to advantages of light members. Based on these advantages, such a system is also used for buildings with special importance. Structural health monitoring (SHM) implements a damage detection and characterization strategy for ...

Spatial analysis of distribution and access to urban services at the level of urban neighborhoods with a spatial justice approach (Case study: Commercial uses of Ardabil city)

One of the most important and urgent issues of urban planning is the equitable distribution of facilities, services and accessibility of citizens at the urban level. Economic and commercial centers, including banks and financial institutions, are one of the most important economic sectors of cities and can be sustained. Social, economic, physical, and environmental impacts of neighborhoods. The...

Urban agriculture

This paper describes the scale and nature of agricultural production in urban, suburban and peri-urban zones of Mexico City and how these have adapted to the changing demands from urban populations for food, wood and recreation. It also demonstrates how agricultural producers have successfully adapted their products and their production methods, including building on traditional production syst...

Urban Transport Optimization – a Smart Mobility Approach

Each person who travels in a city wants to arrive to the destination as quickly as possible. Nevertheless, in the same time, from an urban transportation company’s perspective, it is also very important to assure that the access to public transport services is available for as many people as possible, according to their needs. In this paper, we try to present a model of public urban transport o...